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French Film Festival · 2012

French Film Festival 2012

Panorama Horizons

Selection of the best contemporary films from France.

Programme

9 films · 1 review

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All Our Desires (Toutesnos envies)

A judge finds herself taking on loan sharks.

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Philippe Lioret; Writer: Emmanuel Courcol, Philippe Lioret, from the book by Emmanuel Carrère; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Marie Gillain, Amandine Dewasmes, Yannick Renier, Pascale Arbillot, Isabelle Renauld, Laure Duthilleul, Emmanuel Courcol, Anna-Bella Dreyfus, Thomas Boinet, Léna Crespo, Oriane Solomon, Eric Naggar, Jean-Pol Brissart, Nathalie Besançon)

Armed Hands (Mains armées)

The lives of a police officer and his estranged narc daughter collide.

(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Pierre Jolivet; Writer: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël; Stars: Roschdy Zem, Leïla Bekhti, Marc Lavoine, Nicolas Bridet, Nicolas Marié, Nina Meurisse, Eric Bougnon, Marilyne Canto, Adrien Jolivet, Cyril Guei, Clémentine Poidatz, Simon-Pierre Boireau, Marc Robert, Bruno Debrandt, Gérard Meylan)

Bad Seeds (Comme un Homme)

Starring real life father-son actors Charles Berling and Emile Berling as a high school principal and hiswayward teenage son, Louis,who is involved in a rather dubious extracurricular activity: the kidnapping of an English teacher.

(Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France; Year: 2012; Director: Safy Nebbou; Writer: Safy Nebbou, Gilles Taurand, based on the novel by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac; Stars: Emile Berling, Charles Berling, Sarah Stern, Kévin Azaïs, Mireille Perrier, Patrick Bonnel, Pierre Lottin)

A Better Life (Une vie meilleure)

An idealistic chef falls for a single mum... but the financial and social class odds are stacked against them.

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Cédric Kahn; Writer: Catherine Paillé, Cédric Kahn; Stars: Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga, Nicolas Abraham, François Favrat, Brigitte Sy, Fayçal Safi, Annabelle Lengronne, Valérie Even, Daria Kapralska, Yann Andrieu, Atika Taoualit, Arnaud Ducret, Serkan Oba)

Camille Rewinds (Camille redouble)

Review preview for Camille Rewinds

Self indulgent, nonsensical and soulless scenes are woven together into a sentimental fog that hovers above the surface of a faux world, past and present.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 1.5 out of 5
French remake of Peggy Sue Got Married.

(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Noémie Lvovsky; Writer: Maud Ameline, Noémie Lvovsky, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Florence Seyvos; Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla, India Hair, Julia Faure, Yolande Moreau, Michel Vuillermoz, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Vincent Lacoste, Micha Lescot, Anne Alvaro, Mathieu Amalric, Riad Sattouf, Elsa Amiel)

Happiness Never Arrives Alone (Un bonheur n'arrive jamais seul)

A bachelor who only dates under-21s finds himself falling for a divorced mum of three.

(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: James Huth; Writer: James Huth, Sonja Shillito; Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Sophie Marceau, Maurice Barthélémy, François Berléand, Michaël Abiteboul, Julie-Anne Roth, Macha Méril, François Vincentelli, Timéo Leloup, Milena Chiron, Timothé Gauron, Litzi Vezsi, Cyril Guei, Sacha Prijovic, Bérénice Marlohe)

My Worst Nightmare (Mon pire cauchemar)

The class divide after two children from radically different backgrounds become friends.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2011; Director: Anne Fontaine; Writer: Anne Fontaine, Nicolas Mercier; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier, Virginie Efira, Corentin Devroey, Donatien Suner, Aurélien Recoing, Eric Berger, Philippe Magnan, Bruno Podalydès, Samir Guesmi, Françoise Miquelis, Jean-Luc Couchard, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Serge Boutleroff)

La Pirogue

A group of West African immigrants attempt a hazardous illegal crossing tomainland Europe.

(Country: France, Senegal, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Moussa Touré; Writer: Abasse Ndione, Éric Névé, David Bouchet; Stars: Bassirou Diakhate, Moctar Diop)

War Of The Buttons (La Guerre des boutons)

Comedy about rival children's gangs.

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Yann Samuell; Writer: Yann Samuell, based on the novel by Louis Pergaud; Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Alain Chabat, Vincent Bres, Salomé Lemire, Théo Bertrand, Tristan Vichard, Tom Terrail, Louis Lefèbvre, Victor Le Blond, Arthur Garnier, June Maître, Paloma Lebeaut, Théo Fernandez)